. Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon : with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan, and the desert : being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the trustees of the British museum. Scientific expeditions. 8:40 Nineveh and Kurds of Wan. CHAFTEE XYIII. MEHEMET PASHA. DESORIPTIOISr OF WAN. ITS HISTOKY. IMPKOVEMENT IN ITS OOKDITION.—THE ARMENIAN BISHOP. THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIP- TIONS.—THE CAVES OF KHORKHOR. ^THE MEHER KAPOITSI. A TRADI- TION. OBSERVATIONS ON THE INSCRIPTIONS. THE BAIRAM. AN AR- MENIAN SCHOOL. THE AMERICAN MISSIONS.—PROTESTANT MOVEMENT IN TURKEY. ^AMIKH. ^
. Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon : with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan, and the desert : being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the trustees of the British museum. Scientific expeditions. 8:40 Nineveh and Kurds of Wan. CHAFTEE XYIII. MEHEMET PASHA. DESORIPTIOISr OF WAN. ITS HISTOKY. IMPKOVEMENT IN ITS OOKDITION.—THE ARMENIAN BISHOP. THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIP- TIONS.—THE CAVES OF KHORKHOR. ^THE MEHER KAPOITSI. A TRADI- TION. OBSERVATIONS ON THE INSCRIPTIONS. THE BAIRAM. AN AR- MENIAN SCHOOL. THE AMERICAN MISSIONS.—PROTESTANT MOVEMENT IN TURKEY. ^AMIKH. ^THE CONVENT OF YEDI KLISSIA. Mehemet Pasha was living during the fast of Hamazan in a kiosk in one of the gardens outside the city walls. "We had scarcely eaten, before he came himself to welcome us to Wan. He was the son of the last Bostandji-Bashi of Constantinople, and having been brought up from a child in the imperial palace, was a man of pleasing and dignified manners, and of consider-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894. New York : Putnam
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